Slacktonbury - 2014

Strange Bruise

Slack Babbath

Just a short write up and an excuse to extol the virtues of Dave and Julie Campbell in putting on another fine sunday session at the Schooner in Gateshead.

We had some fine rock on vinyl from one of the guest DJs with stuff like The Stones Midnight Rambler and ZZ Tops La Grange spilling out from the speakers , and amazingly even the very young kids were loving it all. Dave sorted "Ratty's" barbecue and whilst I fancied something to eat the burgers and portions were too big for me.

By the way if you come down to the Schooner the food is awesome.

Anyway first up were Strange Bruise opening with "Strange Brew" , then I captured them doing an excellent rendition of "White Room". The crowd appreciated them and it's great to have a Cream tribute band in the area.  Certainly worth catching and a great warm up for the headliners.


I'm showing my ignorance here , I dont know what Slack Babbath opened with but Ozzy Ouseburn made a great entrance , the best I've seen since Big Ray joined The Hipthrusters on Newcastle's Blue Carpet. Anyway you can watch it on the first video below:


I managed to also record Symptom of The Universe and the band played many favourites including Snowblind, Iron Man (introduced as Iron Bloke) and Paranoid. The sound quality was excellent and it was a truly brilliant afternoon for all. Looking forward to more but this was a truly memorable occasion

Incoming Gigs

Abominable Showmen - Irish Centre May 11th

This is just a short post to tell you of gigs in the area that are going to be on , which you can still get tickets for. I missed out on tickets for the Public Service Broadcasting gig at The Cluny this Friday , but they , like Strypes are getting very popular very fast. Anyway here goes:

• May 11th - Abominable Showmen at The Irish Centre with the Animal Themed gig . Details here
• May 11th - Lord Rochester play The Schooner for Dave Campbell's Birthday. 
• May 26th - 27th - Evolution Festival Too few bands I want to see but Strypes and Jake Bugg are playing , but they are the only ones that I would want to see
• 6th June - Mudhoney , Meat Puppets and METZ play the Newcastle  O2 Academy
• July 12th-14th Mouth of Tyne Festival featuring The Human League on Friday , Jame Morrison on Saturday , and The Wonder Stuff plus Aswad on the Sunday.
• July 19th-21st Summertyne with loads of acts including The Mavericks and Martha Wainwright , lots of free bands on the Jumpin' Hot Stage as well as The River Cruise!
• The Deputies have the following gigs (all Saturdays)
  • 1st June The Three Tuns (free)
  • 6th July The Teams Club (£3 in aid of GNR)
  • 13th July The Killingworth Club (£3 in aid of MacMillan Cancer)

There will be a lot more going on but this is just an information announcement